SFPD takes a “Bazooka” off the streets
Apparently, the San Francisco Police Department didn’t learn anything from their brothers in Los Angeles when they paid good taxpayer money for another fiberglass inert rocket launcher tube this weekend;
A community leader believes San Francisco took a big step toward being less violent with the event.
“We got a bazooka off the street. We got a cannon ball off the street. We got assault rifles. We got everything that you can name that could destroy a whole universe and we get rid of them within hours,” Rudy Corpuz Jr. with United Playaz said.
Buyback organizers also told us that it succeeded because of its “no questions asked” policy for the people who surrendered guns.
The inert fiberglass tube is an expended AT-4 anti-tank weapon, but once the weapon has been fired, as this one has been fired, it’s nothing more than trash. It can’t be reloaded – you know, like a stolen law enforcement officer’s handgun can be reloaded and used to kill a young girl on a pier in San Francisco. So, SFPD was successful in getting trash off the street, but no one is safer.
I’d like to see the cannonball they say they bought, too.
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My God….these people give “dumb as a box of rocks” new meaning. “Inert” in this story is a direct reference to their absence of intellect!!!
As a retired LEO (LI, NY) I can say without hesitation that we wouldn’t have wasted our time with this “trash!”
Somewhere, a cannon is looking for its ball.
Yeah, “we got a cannon ball off the streets”. WTF is that supposed to mean? Can I get some second hand downrigger balls and sell them back to Cali for $100 each?
Let me know if it works.
NOooooo!! The old ones are more pure lead, and are near perfect to melt down and pour .54’s for my mountain gun! I can also get about 3 or 4 dozen .32’s out of a one pound downrigger ball!
I knew a guy who used to melt down tire weights for his downrigger balls…
My favorite is the guy who made four home made shotguns for around $5 each and sold them in a buyback for $50. Not a bad profit.
http://gunwatch.blogspot.com/2015/04/gun-buy-back-homemade-shotguns-for-cash.html
Is dumbass one word or two? Or is it hyphenated. Its good to see “no questions were asked” Were any of the items previously stolen? Or had they been used in a previous crime?
I’ve got a couple breaktop revolvers that are about a century old I inherited. I could exchange them for one of these cash buy backs and then buy a useful firearm or ammo with the proceeds.
First, you might want to check out what they are worth in the Blue Book of Gun Values. These old wheel guns have become quite popular in the past 20 years with Cowboy Action Shooters who use them to compete in pocket pistol shooting events. I have seen guns you could buy for $100 a few years ago now fetching prices double that and more, especially for those made by Smith & Wesson. If they are shootable, put them on Gunbroker. If they are junk, by all means turn them in for some gov’t sucker bucks.
(Grin)
“I’ll give you -two- hundred for that old colt.”
I’ll bid $250
I don’t think I have seen any Colt pistol of any vintage that was worth less than $500 for over 20 years. We were talking about break-top revolvers, like the S&W .38 and .32’s. I have a .41 Colt Thunderer (Lightning) for which I paid about $700, which is the least valuable of my Colts.
“I’d like to see the cannonball they say they bought, too”
A single cherry bomb?
Or looks suspiciously like a bowling ball.
I was just going to say that their cannon ball probably had three holes bored in it.
The holes make the cannon ball inert.
“We got everything that you can name that could destroy a whole universe and we get rid of them within hours,” Rudy Corpuz Jr. with United Playaz said.
An entire Universe has been saved? Well, why didn’t someone tell me? What size is it? Is it hanging from Orion’s belt?
The got a Death Star off the street! That’s freaking amazing.
Wonder where they put it for safe keeping?
It’s hidden behind the moon. Only Pink Floyd holds the exact location.
I took some blasters, a light saber, and a Millenium Falcon off the street back in the late 70’s and early 80’s for a certain young Star Wars fan.
I had a Ford Falcon
BUT was it painted blue?
I drove a red Ford Falcon Futura during HS/early college.
I’m thinking they used a non-Newtonian deflecting shield to cover it and disguise it as a park bench.
From a Cat’s Collar. You humans think something has to be big.
Ex-PH2—pretty sure it was a Illudium Q-36 Explosive Space Modulator. That dang Marvin leaves those things all over the galaxy.
People, people, people, get it correct. It’s an Illudium PU-236 Explosive Space Modulator. The right or wrong module makes all the difference in “the world”.
Things not to say during a claymore training misfire:
(Marvin voice) “Where’s the Kaboom? I was expecting an Earth-shattering Kaboom.”
Durn! I was so hoping someone would tell me he found and bought the latest model of the A&P-57 field rifle with a loaded 30-pound canister, a grenade launcher, 300X laser scope, two 30-round magazines, a bayonet slot, and a 300x 10MP gun camera.
If you’re gonna have a weapon, get one that means business!
As a kid I engaged with the shot put, a round ball of steel that we’d hurl, or put, as far as we could. It could pass as a cannon ball. One probably did to these jokers. But really, toss one of these at a person and hit them, it’d do immense damage. They are probably illegal in Frisco. California probably has a law about buying these things, like a person can only buy one a month or such.
I bet the “cannon ball” is one of those hand delivered type with three pre-drilled holes and known for being used to knock down pins
anti-material round, tri-fuse-well type.
Since they call that a bazooka, I’m thinking a cannonball is an expended artillery round – you know the empty shells we used for ashtrays.
Wanna have some fun?
Take a four foot piece of 3 inch PVC pipe.
Paint it OD and lean it against a cheap tripod on your front lawn.
Go inside the house and wait.
Bingo!
My exact thinking.
Hell, I’d use it as a bottle rocket launcher and afterward I’d sell it to those retards for a good chunk of beer money!
Add just a few pinches of saltpeter, sulfur and charcoal dust, and it’ll smell like it’s been fired, just like Captain Kirk’s improvised rocket launcher.
You need bamboo, not PVC!
Well, it’s true that the Chinese did use bamboo, which can grow quite large, in their first efforts because of it’s strength. But they did finally get around to building metal cannons at some point.
Yeah, but Captain Kirk used bamboo to put the hurting on the Gorn commander.
“#65: Kirk once made a cannon out of bamboo, sulphur, potassium nitrate, charcoal and then fired diamonds into the hearts of his enemies. (Need we say more?)”
(from 100 reasons why Kirk is cooler than Picard)
Fired the diamonds but no pearls??
(Paradons)
Pearls before Tellerites. Diamonds before Gorn.
Darn glad my mouth was empty when I read that!
When I was in my “yute” we used to buy bottle rockets by the gross and have wars in our neighborhood.
I’d be in Supermax today, unless I was “slinging my gat” in a drive-by, in which case I might get a stern talking to.
Speaking of bottle rockets,
Yes….but make sure to put on your finest bedsheets and towels before you go outside.
*sigh*
And whoever sold that useless tube of fiberglass to the SFPD can now go out and purchase a real weapon or ammunition.
I’m going to the next SFPD buyback with my sons PVC spud gun…..total cost: $8.00 in parts and PVC cement.
I can paint it OD green and stencil the outside with “Heat Seeking Nuclear Shaped Charge Armor Piercing Rapid Fire Laser Guided Weapon of Mass Destruction”.
Mark 1A
Don’t forget to add a “silencer” to it, with a high capacity magazine and bayonet lug.
Add a compass in the stock and a thing that tells time and you might have something there!
You’ll shoot your eye out.
Just blame it on an icicle!
BUPKIS HOUNDS!!!!
One thing to remember: this story sounds ridiculous because we are not the intended audience. This whole clip is geared to keep the uninformed suburbanite viewers scared, the liberal college student group-think mentality intact and enraged, and to make the government lackeys look like “They’re doing something about these crazy gun nuts”.
That cop knows damned well he is carrying a useless husk, yet he displays it carefully and gently moves it like it was the tsar bomba. It’s all just a game to keep liberal society intact and engaged.
Damn, I should probably grab another coffee. I’m a bit grumpy this morning.
Actually I wouldn’t bet the cop knows. Back in the day cops were vets and people of the gun. Now, not so much.
So true. My academy class had 27 people in it. 24 of us were veterans.
Now, the departments around here seem to go out of their way to recruit SJWs.
Out of my academy in 2013, 5 of the 35 were veterans. As of today only 8 or 9 are still LEO’s. All but one veteran is still on, and he left for his kids medical issues and insurance.
ATTENTION:
It was Nancy Poledanski who wrote the talking points for the community leader in SF. Her expertise in all things weapons, gun and ammo produces profound statements of insanity.
How much were they giving away?
I could repaint my laser tag gun, ’cause it looks like a sort-of real thing, and turn it in at their next buyback event. It uses infrared light bullets, you know. Very dangerous.
I’ll bet you could turn in an empty ammo can.
Pick a size. The tall inert mortar ones are especially dangerous to children.
Those cans we used to toss away in the ’60’s?–kept one for shoeshine gear. Ya see what they want fer ’em at surplus stores? Don’t give these clowns anything that could be useful.
I tried to take two empty ammo cans out of Norfolk,NOB’S main gate after we got back from the Dominica Republic’s mini revolution in 1965 but the Marine Gate Rat’s said they were Govt. property and confiscated them. I wish they could have seen the tax payers dollars worth of munitions that were thrown off the fan tail after the cases were opened up but the BLT was put on hold and did not go ashore.
I wonder if it was in used NATO configuration?
“Backblast Area CLEAR!!!”
$200 for assault weapons and $100 for handguns.
I just finished wrapping presents, so I have 3 empty cardboard tubes that are just as dangerous as that launch tube. $600, thankyouverymuch!
UP claimed 5 automatic weapons and “even” an AK. The picture of the AK has the California mandated mods, so there is zero chance it is automatic. I suspect the same for the other 4.
For the sake of accuracy, the SFPD did not take a so-called bazooka off the street. At least not directly. All of the weapons were collected during the buy-back program run by United Playaz, which is funded by a community development grant and some medical marijuana dispensaries. The cops were there pretty much just to haul everything off.
Something annoying, at least it seems to me, is how people like Rudy Corpuz Jr. manage to make a living by being professional gang bangers. As if it’s a matter of give generously to United Playaz, or bad things will happen. Where’s Harry Callahan when you need him?
“This here is an AT-4 anti-tank weapon, Rudy. It’s one of the most powerful bazookas in the world. And you’re probably asking yourself; did he fire it already or not. And do I feel lucky. Well do ya, Rudy?”
Actually it was the police. From the article;
You’re right in a certain sense, Jonn. The SFPD was there to “secure” the weapons, but didn’t apparently pay any of the money. In addition, the location of the buyback was at the United Playaz clubhouse on Howard Street. Which also raises the question: If you were a cop and some low-ride vato drove up with an empty AT-4 tube, would you choose to take it off his hands, or would you tell him to take it home and turn it into barrio yard art?
The San Francisco Chronicle had a more detailed story on how things worked:
https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Annual-SF-gun-buyback-takes-280-firearms-off-the-12436048.php
The SF LGBTQWERTY Police wouldn’t know a “bazooka” if one hit them in their assless chaps, when off duty (we hope).
I happened to know a few SF cops and firemen at one time. None of them were LGBTQWERTY, or wore assless chaps, or even resided in the city. Just because you’re a zookeeper doesn’t mean you live at the zoo. The SF Board of Supervisors once had a rule you had to be a resident in order to work for the city, but it was routinely ignored because the city couldn’t have functioned if it was enforced.
Well, I had the misfortune of watching a Love the LGBQWERTY presentation by a SFPD officer who was “formerly” male and is now one of the fugliest dudes with tits I have ever seen. So, that was then and this is now (this year).
Point taken. It’s been awhile. I once worked under temporary contract to the city, and the LGBTQWERTYs didn’t seem to be as much of an issue then as a couple of other things. One was the rampant nepotism among Asian employees to the extent even they joked about it. Another frustration was that every single tiny decision needed to be examined for a political correctness which seemed to change all the time.
One of the classics, for example, was that you couldn’t buy Sony monitors because Sony did business with the government of Myanmar who had apparently caused yet another international outrage. Take that one example, no big deal by itself, but multiply it by 1000, and you started getting an accurate picture of the extent of the moon-bat craziness.
Where can I buy a Non “Military-Grade Bazooka”?
Home Depot where it’s just called a length of 4″ PVC pipe and flat OD green spray paint.
They are on the top shelf, right next to the “low-powered rifles”
Stupid libtard fucks…
If I hit up a surplus store for a bunch of expended/training stuff, then turn around and sell it for profit to a buyback program in a sanctuary city, do I have to pay a capital gains tax?
Not if you already paid a sales tax on the original purchase.
Thanks for doing the right thing though.
I am thinking of painting a 55 gallon drum OD, stencil a few military looking numbers and nomenclature on it, then blamo, I could pass it off to the libtards as a MOAB and make a couple of hundred bucks off of it and increase my rum supply?
Agent Orange in big letters.
Willie, I’ve got some super duper top secret NSNs and Nomens available (upon request) that are sure to scare the libtards silly.
Just ask and I will produce them.
Signed: an Old PLL Clerk/Supply Sgt.
Beware of “hoax bomb” statutes, for example Florida.
Jonn, like you, I would love to see a photo of that “cannonball.” There is nothing deadlier than solid shot for a Civil War 12-pounder Napoleon or a Three inch Ordinance Rifle./s Of course, it is nothing but an inert lump of cast iron without the cannon to fire it.
My kind of “Bazooka”.
Good old Bazooka bubble gum along with Bazooka Joe and his gang comics.
And if you saved the wrappers…….free gifts!!
https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRjh7MLZxuwrh5aumhNV_7dps9RzuINNH3nJl-fGaY1ZYX2ZW5p
So if you turned in Bazooka Joe himself would that be worth $200 or would you be arrested for human trafficking?
One of my daughters-in-law brought back some French chocolate with comics on the wrappers – and it reminded me of ol’ Bazooka Joe.
Now if I only could read French…
According to this San Fran article, they also took in a “rocket launcher”.
San Francisco police were handed a few unexpected firearms during a Saturday gun buyback: An AT-4 a.k.a. a Bazooka-like anti-tank weapon, a rocket launcher and a cannonball.
https://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/Bazooka-Among-Firearms-Turned-Over-at-San-Francisco-Police-Gun-Buyback-464621363.html
Maybe I ought to have cast a bunch of ball shaped lead sinkers and handed them to the SFPD telling them it was Grapeshot?
And these people are worried about a NorK Nuclear Missile attack. I would see it as a blessing.
Were they searching for red rockets in the Castro?
Were they really looking for ‘Friends of Dorothy’???
Hmmmm……
No, really, they were looking for some way to replace their brains, because current models don’t work very well.
I should have saved my Whammo slingshot and sold it back as a miniature catapult plus my Daisy Mod. 25 BB gun with the broken spring. Maybe a box of stones with a leather thong inside and stencil it as the Acme Goliath killer or a red NFPA/NIOSH/OSHA approved gasolene safety can and stick a 1075 hazmat sticker on it.
Plasma Rifle in 40 Watt Range,,,,
Just what you see, pal.
I’ve got a Lorcin 380 I bought of a guy for $25. That’s some kinda profit for me right there. I also have a couple of pistols that don’t work so that is more profit. With what I get from the touchy feely crowd I can buy several 80% lowers and build a bunch of stuff. Woo Hoo
Dude in the glasses up top looks like he has never seen one before…
One would assume at the very minimum they would give them a 30 minute block of instruction.
I bet these dumbass people would buy a bubble gun!
Gru: “I -said- a -dart- gun!”
Former CA State Senator Leland Yee could not be reached for comment.
sweet…
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